Chris Clemens
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When Developing A Continuity Plan, It Pays To Sweat The Details
June 12, 2019 | Media Mentions
When it comes to continuity planning, the good news is that more advisors have begun to develop written plans to protect their practices and clients in the event the advisor is unable to manage the business due to a crisis. The not-so-good news is that many of these plans still lack the depth of detail needed to fully protect their firms, employees and clients when the business is unable to operate as usual for any reason.
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Securities America Recruits Three Groups with Approximately $245 Million in Total Client Assets
May 23, 2019 | Press Releases
Securities America has recruited Miller & Hurt Wealth Advisors, Hill & Associates, and Duprez Financial. The three advisory practices bring approximately $245 million in client assets.
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Seven Questions With Tony Sirianni: Securities America
May 20, 2019 | Media Mentions
AdvisorHub’s Publisher and CEO, Tony Sirianni, sits with established leaders of the largest firms, as well as up and coming disruptors, so advisors can get a sense of how each firm addresses the same issues from different perspectives.
In this spotlight, Tony interviews Gregg Johnson, Executive Vice President of Branch Office Development at Securities America.
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2019 IA25 Independent Broker-Dealer Winners
April 30, 2019 | Media Mentions
Securities America President & CEO Jim Nagengast has been named one of the top leaders in the financial industry. He has been with the Omaha-based IBD — which works with about 2,600 financial advisors — since 1994. Last year, in his successful bid for a seat on the FINRA board of governors, he was supported by FSI, whose president and CEO Dale Brown called Nagengast a highly visible leader in the financial industry and his community.
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Securities America Recruits Meliora Wealth Management and Allied Financial Partners
April 23, 2019 | Press Releases
Securities America has recruited a group of six advisors with over $200 million in total client assets. The Rochester, New York-based group, which includes Meliora Wealth Management and Allied Financial Partners, is affiliating with Securities America through Evolution Financial Advisors, a Victor, N.Y.-based Super-OSJ with total client assets of more than $2.6 billion.
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InvestmentNews: 2019 Top 10 IBDs Ranked By Revenue
April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions
Securities America was among the nation's largest independent broker-dealers (IBD) to have a banner year in 2018. InvestmentNews' annual ranking had Securities America #5 in terms of revenue on the media outlet's annual list of the industry's ten fastest growing IBDs by revenue. The ranking reflects a 26.1% increase in revenue from 2017 to 2018.
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InvestmentNews: 2019 Top 10 IBDs Ranked By Number of CFPs
April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions
Within the top 10 ranked companies in InvestmentNews’ annual list, Securities America claimed the #5 position in the number of CFP® professionals. Last year saw an increase of 4% over 2017; 701 of Securities Americas’ 2,600 reps were also CFP® professionals, putting the IBD at #2 in the ratio of CFP® professional to advisor.
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$200M Advisors drop OSJ for Super-OSJ Amid ‘Disruptive’ Forces
April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions
Robo advisors and the fiduciary rule represent two recent “disruptive and game-changing events,” says financial advisor David Quick of Meliora Wealth Management. So disruptive, in fact, they caused Quick to make a game-changing shift of his own. Meliora Wealth Management, along with Allied Financial Advisors, recently made the jump to Securities America.
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Securities America Launches Solution Enabling Advisors to Utilize Instagram for Social Media Marketing
April 17, 2019 | Announcements
Securities America has enabled its affiliated advisors to utilize Instagram for social media marketing, demonstrating commitment to empowering advisors to connect with investors through the social media channels that matter to them.
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Securities America’s Alternate Corporate RIA Tops $2B With New Team
March 21, 2019 | Media Mentions
Thomas Burke’s Syntegra Private Wealth Group brought $459 million in client assets from Burke’s IBD of 26 years to Securities America. The three-office, St. Louis-area team opted for Arbor Point Advisors rather than opening their own RIA or going with Securities America's traditional corporate RIA, Securities America Advisors.
Email surveillance, cybersecurity and data collection required for recent years’ enhanced regulatory scrutiny is creating “additional burden and risk” for RIAs, says Gregg Johnson, Securities America’s executive vice president of branch office development and acquisitions.
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